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Abencerrages aisles Alcázar Alhambra Alonso Alonso Cano ancient Arab arches Avila Azpeitia Barcelona beautiful Bishop Boabdil buildings Burgos Cadiz Capilla Mayor carved Casa cathedral century chapel Christian church of San Churrigueresque cloister colouring columns Córdoba Coro cross decoration delicate detail doorway entrance exquisite façade feet finest forms glorious Gothic Granada high altar huge interest Juan King La Granja Leon Lérida look lovely Madrid magnificent Mihrab monastery monument Moorish mosque Murillo Museo nave noble one's Oviedo palace passed patio Pedro perfect perhaps picturesque plateresque Plaza pleasant portal portion pretty Puerta quaint retablo rich road Romanesque round Sala Salamanca Santa Maria Santiago scene scenery seen Segovia Sevilla side Spain Spanish splendid spot stands strange streets style surroundings Tangier Tarragona things tion Toledo tomb tower town transept turn Virgin walk walls wonderful Zaragoza
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Page 276 - Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible to shun contempt; His passion still, to covet...
Page 11 - ... of Liberation in 1813. Let real Spanish sunlight come glinting through the trees, lie hot on the white horse-shoe of glistening sand that runs round, past the Santa Clara Island, to the grim, opposing Igueldo, and light up the waves that, even on a still day, dash fiercely on the rocks beneath us, and it would be hard to say what is lacking to make a perfect landscape. If anything, perhaps that touch of home life which the English soul must always have in order to be quite content. Well, here...
Page 107 - No quiso el cielo que hablase, porque con mi entendimiento diese mayor sentimiento a las cosas que pintase; y tanta vida les di con el pincel singular, que, como no pude hablar, hice que hablasen por mi.
Page 119 - ... one stretches to the confines of the old world, the other advances with the discovery of America to the utmost limits of the new. The period when the first of these vanishes and the second begins, divides their duration into two equal phases, each of full three hundred years. During the first period, from the beginning of the thirteenth to the beginning of the sixteenth century, the great lines which bounded the arena of the Preachers...
Page 72 - ... science of attack and defence, but is full, likewise, of touching record and suggestion.
Page 236 - ... that the exact relation between the irregular widths of cloistering on the long and short sides of the court is that of the squares upon the sides of a right-angled triangle.
Page 148 - ... and the joys of chastity, and enrich themselves at the expense of others while they extol poverty. For these the sad and silent cloister ; for us the crystalline fountain and the shady grove ; for them the hard and unenlightened life of dungeon-like strongholds ; for us the sweetness of social intercourse and scientific culture. For them, intolerance and' tyranny ; for us, a ruler who is our father. For them, a people lying in the darkness of ignorance ; for us, an instruction as widespread and...
Page 60 - ... share of the credit, for with him were associated Pedro Berruguete, whose best work we have seen at Valladolid, and Santos Cruz. The solitary figures of SS. Peter and Paul, with the four evangelists and four doctors of the Church, which occupy the lowest stage, are full of life and vigorous execution. The more ambitious compositions above — first, the Annunciation, Nativity, Transfiguration, Adoration of the Magi, and the Presentation in the Temple, and then the Scourging, the Agony in the...
Page 148 - For these, the sad and silent cloister ; for us, the crystalline fountain and the shady grove ; for them, the rude and unsocial life of dungeon-like strongholds ; for us, the charm of social life and culture ; for them, intolerance and tyranny ; for us, a ruler who is our father ; for them, the darkness of ignorance ; for us, letters and instruction...